Photographs
The war was over without any deaths. Seven of the gunfighters posed with Short for the most famous Dodge City Peace Commission photo. Shown are: Charlie Bassett,Wyatt Earp, Frank McLain, Neal Brown, W. H. Harris, Luke Short, Bat Masterson, and W. F. Petillon. However, more than one photo was taken, and there was at least one man not pictured in this most well circulated photo, who was better known as a gunman than Petillon, Brown, Harris or McClain, and who was present in at least one other photo taken at the same time. That other gunman was famed lawman Bill Tilghman, who in one photo replaces W. F. Petillon. In another copy of this photo, Petillon does not appear at all, but background detail is also missing. The figure of Tilghman may also have been added in the photo which shows him, since again there are no changes at all in any other figure.
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Famous quotes containing the word photographs:
“As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“A way of certifying experience, taking photographs is also a way of refusing it—by limiting experience to a search for the photogenic, by converting experience into an image, a souvenir. Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)
“All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this—as in other ways—they are the opposite of paintings. Paintings record what the painter remembers. Because each one of us forgets different things, a photo more than a painting may change its meaning according to who is looking at it.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)